They're two candidates for the Name-Calling Hall of Fame and show just how pissed off Chris Kluwe is. No one straddles the disparate worlds of pro sports and video games like Kluwe, a retired NFL punter, longtime gaming aficionado and popular Internet personality. Now, with a sexism scandal called GamerGate brewing in the gaming world, Kluwe has had enough.

That's why he wrote a scathing column this week for The Cauldron called, not subtly, "Why #Gamergaters Piss Me The F*** Off." It was in that column that Kluwe leveled those legendary insults and picked apart the confusing, slightly complicated and mostly off-putting GamerGate movement.

And if, like us, you were wondering just what a "pickletit" is, here's your answer straight from the horse's mouth.

"Imagine a tit shaped like a pickle, just all knobby and sticking out," Kluwe said. "It's a word that just has a good feel to it as it rolls off the tongue, right?" Indeed.

If you aren't up to speed on GamerGate, here's how Kluwe himself described it for Mashable in a phone interview on Friday: "GamerGate is ostensibly about ethics in gaming journalism, but in reality its misogynistic core is tainting whatever aims the actual movement is trying to achieve."

The ongoing GamerGate scandal was sparked by a blog post by the ex-boyfriend of a female video-game developer under the auspices of saying reporters who write about gaming have lax ethics. GamerGate has been more defined, however, by angry threats made by male gamers against females who enter the conversation.

Feminist GamerGate critic Anita Sarkeesian recently canceled a speaking event at a Utah university after an anonymous person threatened her and the school, promising "the deadliest school shooting in American history." Other female critics have had personal information posted online without their permission — a practice called "doxxing" by gamers.

Yet Kluwe said "no one's come after me" since his scathing GamerGate takedown published this week. And Kluwe considers that very telling.

"I called them literally every name I could think of," he said. "And nope, no one's come after me. But Felicia Day wrote a very heartfelt blog post about how all this has made her feel and 15 minutes later, she gets doxxed in the comments. If nothing else, that shows the true core of this so-called movement. It's very much a gender-based thing — there's no way around the fact that their main targets are prominent women who have been involved in gaming."

Why have women in gaming become targets? Kluwe compared it to his experience as a player in NFL locker rooms for eight seasons.

"I see some parallels in that gaming is very much a boys' club and there's this idea that you can't be considered a hardcore gamer unless you fit a certain description," he said. "The parallel is that the football locker room is also a boys' club with a lot of misogyny. But think it has less to do with just similarities between NFL and gaming cultures, and is more indicative of a bigger problem in society at large — which is plain misogyny."

Kluwe held an Ask-Me-Anything session on Reddit after his GamerGate article came out. Hopefully, he said, it was useful in showing gamers concerned about ethics in the video-game press — which Kluwe calls a legitimate gripe — that the GamerGate movement has been corrupted beyond repair.

"The problem is that a lot of GamerGate moderates, if you could call them that, refuse to disassociate themselves from the bigger movement," he said. "Any discussion about ethics is going to be fundamentally tainted when most of the people in that movement do not behave ethically."

But most of all, he sees GamerGate's attacks on women — much like the NFL's ongoing domestic violence scandal — as smaller pieces of a bigger cultural problem with misogyny.

"We can try to address this symptom," he said, "but until we get to the root causes of it, similar things are just going to keep happening over and over in different arenas."

Sports Fails

1. Golf Cart Fail

This runaway vehicle wreaked minor on-field havoc following a high school football championship in Texas last December. But a heroic bystander hopped aboard and put on the brakes.

No casualties occurred, and the clip immediately became Internet legend.

2. Penalty Kick Fail

Watch out for the ricochet, goalie! This kid gets it in the right in the chops.

3. Mascot on Rollerblades Fail

What happens when you put an inflatable dinosaur on rollerblades and ask it to skate down a flight of stairs? Amazingness, that's what.

4. Flopping Fail

In sports, to "flop" is to exaggerate the force of contact in hopes of drawing a favorable call from officials. But you've got to time it much, much better than this guy does.

5. Hockey Celebration Fail

Apparently, if you hug a member of the opposite team after scoring a goal in hockey, you will get punched in the face.

6. Innocent Bystander Fail

This kid is just in the wrong place at the wrong time...to the benefit of the rest of us.

7. Representing Your School Fail

College football mascots are supposed to represent their schools in a fun, positive light — which doesn't typically include picking fights. Here, the University of Oregon's duck slams the University of Houston's cougar.

Bonus points for the sick elbow drop, though.

8. Weightlifting Fail

Not saying we could successfully lift 432 pounds above our heads, but dang, that looks painful.

German weightlifter Matthias Steiner dropped this massive barbell on his neck during the London Olympics this summer, but escaped serious injury.

9. Trampoline Dunk Fail

Sometimes, when you fail, you actually win.

10. Hurdling Fail

Why jump over hurdles when you could just RUN STRAIGHT THROUGH THEM?

File under: Never, Ever Gets Old.

11. Paying Attention Fail

After what could best be described as an "optimistic" shot attempt in a game last season, NBA center JaVale McGee showed some nice hustle getting back on defense. Only problem? His team still had the ball.

12. Judgment Fail

But that wasn't McGee's only legendary moment. Here, he shows why it's not a good idea to try dunking from the free throw line mid-game.

13. Olympic Promo Fail

For some reason, London's Olympic promotions this summer involved hanging Mayor Boris Johnson on a zipline while waving a pair of tiny flags.

Then he got stuck halfway through and it was pretty much the best, funniest, awkwardest thing that could have happened.

14. Grand Slam Celebration Fail

Major Leaguer Kendry Morales broke his lower left leg while celebrating a game-winning grand slam in 2010. This edited video provides the before, during and after rundown.

15. Slam Dunk Fail

See? White guys can jump? It's just the landing that's the hard part.

16. High Dive Fail

The announcer here sums it up perfectly. She calls this attempt from the 1992 Olympics "an absolute failed dive."

17. Piggyback Ride Fail

What begins as an innocent enough piggyback ride atop a fuzzy mascot turns into a pretty epic collision — and YouTube gold.

18. Long Jump Fail

Dude! If you're gonna pump up the crowd like that, you can't just faceplant into the sand.

19. Touchdown Celebration Fail

When you think about it, is there any better way to celebrate a touchdown than by pegging an unsuspecting spectator in the face? Bonus points for originality, at least.

20. Pro Golfer Fail

You'd think a professional golfer could put the ball in the hole with less than 16 strokes. Kevin Na — and the rest of the world — found out otherwise on this par-four hole at the 2011 Valero Texas Open.

21. Head-First Slide Fail

Well, that's one way of doing it...right?

22. Time Management Fail

Tie game, clock winding down — it's always better to get one last attempt up than just let the game go into overtime. A full court desperation heave with a 11 seconds to go is never the way to do it, however.

This classic gaffe by the University of Connecticut's Roscoe Smith came during a matchup of top teams in 2011.

23. Boogie Boarding Fail

Its veracity may be suspect, but this 2008 YouTube classic has more than 12.7 million views, despite a mind-numbing soundtrack.

24. Sportsmanship Fail

The summer of 2011 was a tough time for NBA star LeBron James. It was full of lingering ill-will for his decision to the leave the Cleveland Cavaliers and snarky schadenfreude over his initial failure to win a championship with the Miami Heat.

So it makes perfect sense that he'd let off some steam by viciously dunking on a tiny kid at summer camp, right? That's what happens at the 0:43 mark of this video.

25. Standing on a Basketball Hoop Fail

We're not quite sure why this mascot thought standing on top of a basketball rim was a good idea.

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